By: ASMITA SUHASINI
September 2009

I am pleased to inform my readers that HUM turns 14 years old this month. The magazine has become recognised as a premier title in the entertainment field. It has served Calgary and Edmonton for the last so many years. I took this magazine in the year 2006 and believe me it has been a wonderful journey as an editor of the same.

Though the main purpose of the magazine is to tell the readers about the latest in Bollywood yet we have included two pages on the legends of  Indian Cinema. I firmly believe that if you want to move ahead you have to take the past also with you. In brief, we haven’t forgotten our old time heroes and heroines who have helped shaping the Indian film industry.

Just think, in the year 2006 , I introduced two new pages in the magazine called profile where I profiled some eminent people of Calgary and surrounding areas. We still carry those two pages and people congratulate me on the phone and tell me that they feel connected with the city. Sensing the taste of my readers, I have included a new two page section in my magazine titled  HELLO CALGARY where we shall give some coverage to the happenings and events held at Calgary in a months’ time.

HUM will try to record some of the important functions where communities reach out to others to connect and their discovery have just begun. You can always inform us in advance about the event at yourhum@canada.com.   I must say that it has been fun working with this magazine and also these are the interesting times for the media. News is quickly  available on internet, cellphones, videos and everywhere.

The art of  choosing good pictures and  telling stories never dies and that’s what we are presenting to our readers in our magazine. You can send your comments on the email addressed above. Bye for now.